Democrats need to do more...

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21. Thanks Hugh. Good points.

Now I will systematically destroy them... Just kidding. I will address some obstacles to getting to your goals though.

1. As Will Rogers famously said, "I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat." I think that Schumer and Pelosi have actually done a pretty good job keeping their caucuses together. I think Biden's platform is pretty comprehensive too. Democrats however, have always been a coalition with similar values, but sometimes very different goals and methods of getting there. The overarching unity of the Democratic Party is that we believe that government is and should be a force for good in people's lives, that government should step in to help when other natural systems can't get the job done. From there, we differ widely on exactly how that should be done, and sometimes those distinctions are just as fierce as what separates us from Republicans.

Republicans have no such ideology and no such problem with unity. Republicans used to be a wider tent. There were some who favored less social interference, some who even supported labor. Those days are gone. I think that all current Republicans to some degree or another, favor conservative ideology as intended. To maintain the current social, political, and economic hierarchy. Conservatives believe that there is a natural order to society and that the leaders (Wealthy, White, Christian Men) are at the top because they are simply better. Blessed. Ordained by God to lead. Their goal is to ensure that his hierarchy remains intact. If they can achieve that through electoral politics (they can't) then they will follow that. If they need to become anti-democratic, they will. Everyone currently serving, has that same idea to some extent or another. You see a few like Romney, Murkowsky, and Kinzinger not willing to cross certain lines, but those dissenters have slowly been weeded out of the party.

2. 100% agree on that one. Nothing really to say here. Decorum is something that you reserve for an adversary that argues in good faith. Republicans do not argue in good faith. Biden has been better than many on just naming the issue in plain English.

3. That is a tall order. Republicans like to decry everything not FOX or Newsmax, etc... as "liberal" media, and while there is a certain validity in that reporting of facts and information in a quasi objective manner is more akin to liberalism, as has been said, "Reality has a well known liberal bias". Their goal is only to make their very skewed viewpoint equal to the "liberal view point" which would likely be called the "shared reality". Obviously people with a much more left leaning ideology would disagree with my point too. I disagree myself, but liberalism has been the framework under which standards of fact and objectivity (as much as it can be stated) have been developed.

We do have wealthy people who support liberal ideas, however, they would be actively working against their self interests should they fund a true "liberal" media. I think that liberals are tending to favor the ideas of Social Democracy at this time. Higher taxes on wealth and the wealthy to provide for the rest of us. While many of the "liberal billionaires" have expressed solidarity with this, I think that asking them to fund a "propaganda machine" (because that is what right wing media is) actively working against their holding on to that wealth.